financial

[Logical Language Group <cbmvax!uunet!GREBYN.COM!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!lojbab>]

Myapologies to any of you who donated money last year and have been waiting
for your donation receipt.  I expect to send them out this week.  The ned-
of year finances got thoroughly bollixed up with the very late fund-raising d
drive coupled with my rather intense working on the generation 1 books.

While the fund raising drive was not as successful as last years, we finished
the year only $500 in the hole, with about $4000. in the bank.  Since
refundable balances were only about $3500., this means that we have sufficient
net worth to pay off balances for the first time since we incorporated.
We still owe quite a bit in legal fees, and are about to spend a chunk on
book publishing and advertising, but my rather drastic austerity measures
of the last several months are slowly paying off.

Thi smeans that I will be putting together Ju'i Lobypli #16 in a week or two,
after I get caught up to date in finances, mail off about 20 delayed orders,
and fiish the place structure revision.  JL is mostly written (by others) so
I need more to edit than to write it.  Expect it out sometime in March.
The updated gismu list will be put out for review when I start on JL.  Then
in about 2-3 weeks, I will have JL out the door and will start putting the
first book together.  No predictions yet, but I'm reasonably sure it will
be out before LogFest.  I'm open to suggestions for a title for the book,
a reference book that will be mostly dictionary, but a bit of other things.
I've taken to calling it an ur-dictioanry.

The other note on JL regards subscriptions and subscription prices. JL16
will be going out to most everyone who got JL15, about 240 people.  This will
be the last issue sent without a subscription.  Unfortunately, we have
received just less than 60 forms back, so the subscriber list is going
to drop before JL17 unless more of you act soon.  The small response means
that we are setting the subscription price at $28 for US and Canada and US$35
for elsewhere, except that those in Australia/New Zealand will be receiving
their copies from Major at his (somewhat lower) cost.  There is a possibility
that Scandinavian Lojbanists will get a similar benefit, courtesy of Chris
Arnold in Sweden.  The subscription price will cover 4 issues, and we should
be back regularly on a 3 month publishing cycle.

One last bit of news, unfortunately tragic.  Athelstan, one of our local
DC Lojban leaders and a Board member was critically injured in an auto accident
yesterday.  I have little to report about how he is doing - we don't know much.
I ask all of you to include him in your thoughts or prayers as appropriate.

lojbab